Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he can visualize. Conspicuous was yesterday's program, headed by the Seventh Symphony aptly, we think, dubbed by Wagner, "apotheosis of the dance"; and continuing through more specific apotheoses as conceived by Dukas and Strauss. Conspicuous also was Brahms, conspicuously dull and and diffuse, the one dry spot on an otherwise attractive program...
...states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming. Arizona, New Mexico were represented. Miss Hazel MacKaye, pageant director, said of the pageant in the Garden of Gods: "Only a noble idea is worthy of being interpreted in that awe-inspiring-spot." A chorus of 500 women's voices accompanied the presentation of the pageant. Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, President of the organization, made an address in which she said: " I would not say in so many words that marriage is a failure but it seems to me that statistics speak for themselves...
...morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations" is almost equivalent to saying "Have some coffee with your cream". Surely in this case the "cream" is rather an exception...
...isolated spot will be chosen on the experimental farm. An "unclimbable" fence will be erected to in-close a compound. A separate kennel, with large individual yards will be built for each breeding bitch. The animals will be cared for by two trained kennel maids who will rarely be permitted to leave the compound...
...bales made a month earlier, and with the single exception of 1921 is the lowest for August in the past nine years. The pessimistic tone of the Government forecast was a complete surprise to the trade, and resulted in a sharp advance of $5 a bale for spot cotton in New Orleans. The final crop harvested may, however, vary considerably from this latest forecast, according to the turn taken by various conditioning factors during the remainder of the crop season. The chief reason given for inroads made by the weevil is, that heavy rains in much of the belt have...